METHOD FOR SELECTNG AN IPSEC POLICY

摘要

A method and apparatus for querying an IPsec Security Policy Database comprising a plurality of groups of Security Policies that have been assigned a priority value. When a network node receives an IP packet, it determines a priority value and looks for Security Policies in the Security Policy Database having that priority value. If no Security Policies are found, then it looks for Security Policies having a lower priority value. This process is repeated until a Security Policy is found, in which case it is returned and applied to the IP packet, or it is determined that no suitable Security Policy exists.